The International Association for Relativistic Dynamics (IARD)
will host
its 11th biennial meeting in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico 4 - 7 June 2018, in cooperation with
Instituto Politécnico Nacional. The conference sessions
will take
place at Hotel El Español in central Mérida.

IARD 2018
will mark
the association's 20th year of activity since its founding at the 1998 meeting.

Ten previous meetings were held in Houston, Texas,
Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel, Howard University in
Washington DC, Saas Fee, Switzerland, the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT, Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece,
and Hualien, Taiwan, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI) in Florence, Italy, again at UConn, and in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The goal of these meetings is to bring together researchers from diverse fields
whose interests involve relativistic dynamics, both classical and quantum.
The conference program aims to present recent developments in the
abstract theoretical aspects of general approaches in quantum field theory,
conformal field theories and string theories, manifestly covariant approaches to
classical mechanics, quantum theory, and statistical mechanics, general
relativity, classical and quantum gravity, and explore application in such
areas as high energy electron spectroscopy, quark-gluon plasma generation in
heavy ion collisions, general high energy scattering and particle decay,
cosmology, gravitational waves, and relativistic quantum information.

International Advisory Committee

Stephen AdlerInstitute for Advanced Study, USA

Itzhak BarsUniversity of Southern California, USA

Gordon BaymUniversity of Illinois, USA

Fred CooperLos Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Bei-Lok HuUniversity of Maryland, USA

Werner IsraelUniversity of Victoria, Canada

Luca LusannaNational Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)

E.V. ShuryakStony Brook University, USA

L.S. SchulmanClarkson University

William UnruhUniversity of British Columbia, Canada

With deep sadness, IARD notes the passing of Jacob Bekenstein of Hebrew University,
and gratefully recalls his support and encouragement.

IARD Mission Statement

The purpose of the Association is to facilitate the acquisition and
dissemination of knowledge about research programs in classical and quantum
relativistic dynamics of particles and fields.